https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455538
Bug ID: 455538
Summary: Option to keep floating panels -floating- when windows
are maximized
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.25.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: dcalv...@gmail.com
CC: niccolo.venera...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: 1.0
Created attachment 149885
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=149885&action=edit
example of the "desired" result but with a non maximized window
SUMMARY
***
Normally when using a floating panel, maximizing a window and having the
floating panel become a "normal" (ie, non floating) panel makes sense as it
would look ugly and incoherent with the maximized window.
However I'm using the "Maximized Window Gap" Kwin Script, and with it my
maximized windows have a gap around them, and when these windows are not
maximized (but taking the same space as the maximized window) it looks like
both the window and the panel are floating over the background and to me it
looks quite cool.
However when I maximize any window while using the kwin script and the floating
panel, the panel acts as it was designed to and becomes "non floating", thus
breaking the look of both elements (the window, and the panel) floating.
I know this is probably quite a niche scenario, but I'd love to have such
option.
Something similar but not quite the same has been requested under bug #454950.
It will make more sense with the screenshot, which shows more or less an
example of the "desired" result but with a non maximized window, which doesn't
look quite exactly right as I basically had to set the window size manually to
more or less match what it looks like when maximized with the kwin script
enable, but it will surely illustrate the point.
***
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable Floating Panel.
2. Be using Kwin Script "Maximized Window Gap"
3. Maximize a window.
OBSERVED RESULT
The floating panel becomes a "normal" panel and docks to the bottom of the
screen.
EXPECTED RESULT
That the floating panel remains floating the same as if there was no maximized
window.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0
Qt Version: 5.15.4
Kernel Version: 5.18.3-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
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